Field Notes

Hi, I'm José Miguel Santos.

Beautiful Brain is my digital garden: a place for in-progress ideas, experiments, and thoughts, and for connecting with people who think differently. It is intentionally unfinished.

Beautiful Brain is a personal lab notebook shared in public.

Reach out jose@beautifulbrain.me

Latest Writing

Mar 18, 2025 Project Europe (green card joke)
May 6, 2024 AI embeddings are under-noticed
Feb 19, 2024 Lesson from play with my son
Feb 16, 2024 AI Law of Jante (pet project)
Feb 7, 2024 Luck and job hunting in tech
Jan 26, 2024 Two years after quitting full-time
Jan 9, 2024 New Year's resolution pitfalls
Dec 11, 2023 Two ways to accelerate a career
Apr 18, 2023 AI won't beat humans at empathy
Feb 17, 2023 Why I was skeptical of therapy

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Projects

Brain Snacks

Weekly learning snippets and reflections.
Law of Jante AI

A public experiment to explore norms, culture, and AI.
Meal Planning Tool

A practical Coda tool for simpler weekly meal planning.
ADHD Operative System

A personal operating system to work with an ADHD brain.

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Elsewhere

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If something here resonates, reach me at jose@beautifulbrain.me .